Coverage tagged: Sudan (SDN)
Every story tagged to Sudan in the reporting behind our ratings, newest first. State-self-reported sources are excluded from scoring; non-anglophone coverage is surfaced in translation. Every card links to its source.
13 stories, newest first - 2 on this page in translation
The RSF escalated drone strikes on government-held North Kordofan, hitting an El Obeid displacement shelter, a second aerial bombardment within a week as the war widened across Darfur and Kordofan.
A NYT/WaPo joint investigation published Sept 5 documented SAF development and deployment of chlorine-gas bombs with intercepted communications implicating Gen. Burhan, building on US sanctions under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control Act.
Sudan's armed forces conducted their first drone strikes on an RSF convoy inside Chadian territory near Mourdi, prompting Chad to raise its alert status and move roughly 100 armoured vehicles to Tine. Ethiopian arms flights to the RSF rose from 2 in September 2025 to 44 in August 2026, and the RSF opened a renewed Blue Nile offensive taking Sirkum and Bakori. A belligerent now in confrontation with two land neighbours.
Sudan lifted the two-year Khartoum curfew and state of emergency on Aug 28. Recorded as a concrete dated liberalization but NOT booked as an improvement: the same reporting flags active drone threats and unexploded ordnance, and a curfew lift in one city does not move a national civil-liberties floor set against a genocide finding elsewhere in the country.
Chad accused Sudan of an air strike on a fuel market near their shared border that killed 12 on Aug 28. The allegation originates with the Chadian government, an interested party in an active border dispute, and no independent verification of authorship was found, so it is used as direction only and Chad's conflict score is held.
SAF-RSF fighting flared around El Obeid and Jabrat al-Sheikh from Aug 13-14 with RSF drones downed Aug 17 (Critical Threats corroborates); the pre-window RSF-governor defection signals coalition erosion without reducing violence. The claimed killing of commander 'Jebel Moon' is belligerent-adjacent, unconfirmed, not booked. Floor held.
SAF's July 26 offensive restored ~350km of the Khartoum-El Obeid corridor (army claim partially corroborated by ACLED and UN humanitarian data), Hemedti called for renewed mobilization July 31, and by Aug 13 the RSF claimed Qayssan and Al Kurmuk in Blue Nile, ~140-160km from the Roseires Dam; the RSF claims are pure belligerent self-report with no SAF comment. Fronts are expanding geographically either way; the floor holds.
Food supplies to besieged, famine-designated El Fasher HALTED after tighter trade controls blocked millet and sorghum movement from SLM-controlled areas, with delayed rains threatening the Darfur agricultural season; the UN warns of rapidly deteriorating conditions for hundreds of thousands. A discrete humanitarian worsening within already-floored scores.
The SAF and allies recaptured Bara, Al-Baraka and Um Sayala July 25, opening the 350-km motorway to Khartoum and cutting RSF routes (SAF claims relayed by independent exile press; both sides claim gains; vehicle-destruction counts excluded); Hemedti told RSF fighters July 30 that 'Khartoum is our target'. Fronts shifting inside a war at the floor: Sudan conflict held at -10.
UN OCHA documented 15 drone strikes on El Obeid in three weeks killing 45+ civilians and hitting markets, schools, hospitals and water/power infrastructure, leaving 500,000 residents + 100,000 IDPs without power for ~a month; CNN confirmed the RSF siege consolidating July 20. Held Sudan conflict at the -10 floor.
A Port Sudan court (SAF-aligned judiciary, symbolic) sentenced RSF leader Hemedti and 15 co-defendants to death in absentia July 13 over the El Geneina crimes - the first judicial verdict against him this war, while the El Obeid siege (~500,000 trapped) and a 13.7%-fatality cholera outbreak deepen. Sudan conflict held at the -10 floor.
1,300+ confirmed cholera cases with 114+ deaths (13.7% case-fatality) concentrated in Darfur/Kordofan, with spread feared into besieged El Obeid where OHCHR documented 15 drone strikes killing 45+ civilians in three weeks; the EU Parliament voted 476-28 for RSF terrorist designation. Corroborates the Sudan floor.
A UN investigation concluded July 9 that RSF mass killings and gang rapes in Sudan amount to genocide - the most severe multilateral characterization yet - amid continued RSF/SAF fighting. Sudan conflict held at the -10 floor (finding corroborates the worst-case read).